Rethinking the role of your digital team

In our most recent research, many CIOs and CDOs complained that their digital strategy has only affected the edge of the business. Digging into this, we see that one of the biggest root causes is the siloed digital team. Originally separated from the business to...

The Role Of Empathy In CX And On Teams

It’s no wonder that empathy is a hot topic in CX circles today. When we interact with ’empathetic design’, we experience the surprise and delight that keeps us coming back – and spending more. Think of the first time that you held a Kindle (my entire...

The Automotive Tortoise versus the Hare

The automotive sector is a fascinating place to work right now thanks to the rapid acceleration towards electric vehicles and autonomous driving. The changes we are seeing will not just transform a major product category and an industry, but also, just as the...

Digital Transformation: Why Tech Alone Won’t Cut It

Pick any organisation in the FTSE500 and they will probably have a digital transformation initiative of some kind. Indeed, according to IDC, budgets allocated to be spent on digital transformation globally are forecast to reach an estimated $1.2 trillion – an...

Resisting the fate of the big, dumb company

Recently we have been doing a lot of speaking on agile transformation within complex, distributed organisations. We always include examples of how large companies are making it work – we want to show that it is possible to be big and agile at the same time. Even...